The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-09


and good cheer-Scotch, Irish, English
and American guests pel mell-but all
infected with the wit and hospitality 81
Lord and Lady Fitzgibbon. Whether he
was then under his right name do not
know. and shall never seek to discover.
He will tell me whenever it is proper 1
should know. The next time L saw him
was when l happened to glance at a cab
on Union square He was the cabman,
and recognized him instantly.
Come off that box at once, cried,
9Gand give an account of yourself. "
He descended slowly and remarked:
81 am driving a cab-what more
SIMPLEX
get on again, drive to the stables, dis
charge yourself and report at my Office IN
an hour. If you don't, shall have you
logged by detectives"
$50 he came, took boys place in my
law office, entered the. Columbia law
school, and is now doing far better than
nine law students out of ten l really
think he has the markings in him Of
good lawyer of the second rank. "
F'Just like you, old man. You are bet
ter than millions better than wine, better
than
''No not woman, y said he softly, and
by the shine Of his eyes | knew that he
was thinking of a small tyrant who be-
grudged him to most Of his old friends
and did not scruple to tell me Ito my very
faceg that she did not care he should see
much of his bachelor acquaintanceS any
more.
AS we walked toward Waverley place
could not help conjecture or two as to
the reason for his mysterious conduct.
Was he an exile because of a vulgar
scrape, OF through quarrel with his own
family? Was he Tilted, had he been hope
lessly in debt, or had he involved himself
with woman whom he discovered it i'm
possible to marry?
Raymond insisted l should come to his
apartments, his wife being absent doing
penance alta family dinner, but expected
to return soon. When she entered / was
greeted with more cordiality than ever
before, and among other things alluded to
the young Englishman.
81 don't like him, - she remarked.
"And pray, why notp' l exclaimed.
"He is intelligent, well read, a quick and
good talker, handsome in his way-and
worships your husband. -
81 don't like him, - said Mrs Raymond,
taking up her knitting with the most COM
placent air, as if 81 don't like him.
settled the matter logically, psychologist
ally and sociologically for good and all.
Raymond beamed down on his wife and
remarked:
''She thinks his fiber is weak-isn't that
the expression, my dearr'
Mrs. Raymond set her small sharp
curved mouth: ~ =
''No, my dear, that is your expression"
and, turning to me: '"There are points in
your character 1 do not like, but on the
whole you will do. At any rate, you are
not weak. If you did wrong you would
expect and abide by the consequences
But this young Mr.-Mr.-whateyer he
chooses just now to call himself must
say the only reason for his existence that
know of is to make me prouder than
ever of my husb-''
She was not allowed to finish, and, as
an old friend of both turned to the
photograph album until little scuffle
was over.
On leaving the apartments I took
walk, as is my wont before going to bed,
notwithstanding the fearful condition of
the streets, making long loop about the
square through Fourth street and Broad
way. 1t had cleared overhead and the
moon was out AS turned into Waiver
ley place I saw a figure at the side en-
trance of the New York hotel whom !
took for man much the worse for drink,
and paid little heed to. But just as
passed looked up and thought it was the
young Englishman we had dined with.
even hesitated, but the bowed head,
trembling hands, and uncertain knees OF
the figure belonged to a much older man,
and as he seemed to be only steadying
himself to enter the hotel, it occaSioned
me only shrug of pity and sigh.
glanced at the windows of the hotel and
wondered what furthur discoveries in the
matter of American types my high nosed
Is.,I, kIo1r L.,
since she submitted me to her eXamina-
ton. She chung to my memory for some
reason, as if she has something to say to
me, some inquiry to make of far larger
than the whereabouts of a
hotel
AS 1 rose the stairs to my rooms the
youths face and talk returned to me, also
what Raymond's wife had said, and then
his speech about suicides, and l said to
myself: Anyhow, man so light hearted
and straightforward looking can have
nothing criminal on his Conscience
When 1 fell asleep it must have been
about midnight, and as dozed off it oc-
Cured to me as odd that, while / lay on
my left side looking eastward, the young
and the two travellers had
met must be just now in one line with me
west and east, for the tower in which he
slept rose exactly between me and tire
New York hotel rs'What nonsense p was
my last waking thought.
1 might have slept ten minutes or.
week, when my eyes opened. The great |
door that leads out on the roof was
strangely white; doubtless, it was the !
moon that had stolen through the west |
window over my bed, and now shone |
almost level through the room-that was
it. But no. Through the door there was |
q depth of whiteness like glancing into a |
tunnel lined with porcelain, and at its end |
stood in profile a still winter figure, with |
1ne hand pointed slightly downward. I |
could not distinguish the features, but the |
figure recalled some one I had seen some
where. In moment it was gone, and 1 |
,losed my eyes with a resolve not to forget
hat had, as it were, caught in the actu-
llity of an hallucination a dream such as
veaves itself out of random occurrences
# the day.
Asleep in a moment, I lay-how long2
was awake again. The light
vas stronger, the tunnel was not there,
nut just across the room at my door
TODD the same figure, the features not
erfectly distinct, but the flowing hair and
light dress unmistakable. Was it the
Dung woman had met? But what a looki
have seen actresses that sent the chills
crh on n |